Recent questions tagged honours

Description : Who won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2012 ? (1) European Union (2) U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (3) International Atomic Energy Agency (4) Liu Xiaobo

Last Answer : European Union

Description : International Simon Bolivar Prize was recently awarded to Aung San Suu Kyi by the government of (1) Mauritius (2) China (3) Venezuela (4) Cuba

Last Answer : Venezuela

Description : The WISE Prize-2012, also known as the “Nobel Prize for Education” was conferred by the WISE Summit in Doha on : (1) Dr. Madhav Chavan (2) Dr. Yash Pal (3) Dr. M.S. Swaminathan (4) Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam

Last Answer : Dr. Madhav Chavan

Description : Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development - 2012 was awarded to : (1) Sunita Williams (2) Chanda Kochhar (3) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (4) Tereza Fajksova

Last Answer : Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Description : Which of the following is not a recipient of the Dada Saheb Phalke Award ? (1) Prithvi Raj Kapoor (2) Mrs. Kanan Devi (3) Gemini Ganesan (4) Mrs. Devika Rani

Last Answer : Gemini Ganesan

Description : The first recipient of the Dada Saheb Phalke Award was (1) Mrs. Devika Rani (2) Mrs. Kanan Devi (3) B.N. Sarkar (4) Prithvi Raj Kapoor

Last Answer : Mrs. Devika Rani

Description : Who is the winner of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award (2011) ? (1) Gagan Narang (2) Saina Nehwal (3) Sachin Tendulkar (4) M.S. Dhoni

Last Answer : Gagan Narang

Description : In which year did Amartya Kumar Sen receive the Nobel Prize in Economics ? (1) 1998 (2) I995 (3) 2000 (4) 1990

Last Answer : 1998

Description : Who was the recipient of the Dada Saheb Phalke Award for the year 2010 ? (1) A.R. Rahman (2) Javed Akhtar (3) K. Balachandar (4) V.K. Murthy

Last Answer : K. Balachandar

Description : The first recipient of Bharat Ratna was (1) Jawaharlal Nehru (2) Govind Vallabh Pant (3) B. C. Roy (4) C. V. Raman

Last Answer : C. V. Raman

Description : Filmfare Award for Best Female Actor, 2011 was conferred on (1) Shilpa Shetty (2) Priyanka Chopra (3) Vidya Balan (4) Katrina Kaif

Last Answer : Vidya Balan

Description : Novelist, Mr. Salman Rushdie was awarded “Knighthood” by (1) Queen Elizabeth II (2) Prince Charles (3) Mr. Gordon Brown (4) Mrs. Margaret Thatcher

Last Answer : Queen Elizabeth II

Description : Which one of the following was crowned Pantaloon’s Femina Miss India World, 2012? (1) Vanya Mishra (2) Prachee Meera (3) Rochello Maria Rao (4) Shakshee Hariharan 

Last Answer : Vanya Mishra

Description : Which one of the following Indian film actors has been conferred the Honorary Doctorate in Arts and Culture by Bedfordshire University, London ? (1) Amir Khan (2) Anil Kapoor (3) Amitabh Bachchan (4) Shah Rukh Khan

Last Answer : Shah Rukh Khan

Description : Nobel Prizes are awarded annually at (1) Stockholm (2) Washington (3) Geneva (4) Oslo

Last Answer : Oslo

Description : The Magsaysay Award for social service was instituted by (1) the Government of India (2) the UNO (3) the ILO (4) Philippines Government

Last Answer : Philippines Government

Description : The Indian representing an international organization who shared the Nobal Peace Prize with Al Gore of U.S. was (1) Rajendra Pachauri (2) Viswanathan Subramanian (3) R.N. Tagore (4) Mother Teresa

Last Answer : Rajendra Pachauri

Description : The Nobel Prize was instituted by the country (1) USA (2) UK (3) Russia (4) Sweden

Last Answer : Sweden

Description : The book ‘The Audacity of Hope’ has been written by (1) Nayantara Sehgal (2) Aravind Adiga (3) Vikram Seth (4) Barack Obama

Last Answer :  Barack Obama 

Description : Bharat Ratna is designed like the leaf of (1) Banyan tree (2) Peepal tree (3) Cocount tree (4) Sandalwood tree

Last Answer : Peepal tree

Description : Who was the first musician to be felicitated with ‘Bharat Ratna’ ? (1) Lata Mangeshkar (2) M.S. Subbulakshmi (3) Pt. Ravi Shankar (4) Pt. Bhimsem Joshi

Last Answer : M.S. Subbulakshmi

Description : The Nobel Prize for Economics was instituted by (1) Alfred Nobel (2) Sweden’s central bank (3) The Nobel Committee (4) World Bank

Last Answer : Sweden’s central bank

Description : Who of the following is not a recipient of ‘Bharat Ratna’? (1) Morarji Desai (2) Gulzari Lal Nanda (3) Rajiv Gandhi (4) Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Last Answer : Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Description : Nobel Prize in which field is not paid out of the endowment set up by Dr. Alfred Nobel ? (1) Peace (2) Medicine (3) Economics (4) Chemistry

Last Answer : Economics

Description : Who, out of the following, was the first recipient of Bharat Ratna Award ? (1) B.C. Roy (2) S. Chandrasekhar (3) C.V. Raman (4) Gobind Ballabh Pant

Last Answer : C.V. Raman

Description : Who among the following had got the Bharat Ratna Award before becoming the President of India ? (1) Dr. Zakir Hussain (2) Dr. Rajendra Prasad (3) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan (4) V.V. Giri

Last Answer : Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

Description : Who is the scientist who was associated with food grain revolution and who also won the Nobel Prize for Peace? (1) Dr. M.S. Swaminathan (2) Dr. N.E. Borlaug (3) Dr.Subramaniam Chandra Sekhar (4) Willy Brandt

Last Answer : Dr. N.E. Borlaug 

Description : Who received Booker prize for the Book “Half a Life” ? (1) Arundhati Roy (2) Anita Desai (3) V.S. Naipaul (4) Kiran Bedi

Last Answer : V.S. Naipaul

Description : Manav Seva Award has been instituted in the memory of (1) Indira Gandhi (2) Acharya Vinoba Bhave (3) Rajiv Gandhi (4) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

Last Answer : Rajiv Gandhi 

Description : The ‘Global 500’ awards are given for outstanding achievement in which one of the following fields? (1) Literature (2) Medicine (3) Environmental Protection (4) Promotion of International Peace

Last Answer : Environmental Protection

Description : The first Indian to win Nobel Prize was (1) C.V. Raman (2) Rabindra Nath Tagore (3) Hargobind Khurana (4) Amartya Sen

Last Answer : Rabindra Nath Tagore

Description : Which India-born scientist was awarded the Nobel Prize in Astrophysics? (1) Prof. Chandrashekhar (2) Sir C.V. Raman (3) Satyendra Nath Bosh (4) Vikram Sarabhai

Last Answer : Prof. Chandrashekhar

Description : Kalinga Prize for popularisation for science was established in 1951 by the UNESCO at the initiative of (1) C.V. Raman (2) Jagadish Chandra Bose (3) Biju Patnaik (4) S. Radhakrishnan

Last Answer :  Biju Patnaik

Description : Who, among the following, is a non-Indian who was conferred “Bharat Ratna”? (1) Mother Teresa (2) Sheikh Mujibur Rehman (3) Nelson Mandela (4) Lord Mountbatten

Last Answer : Nelson Mandela

Description : Who of the following pairs of Nobel Laureates in Physics was awarded 2010 Nobel Prize? (1) John C Mather, George F. Smoot (2) Albert Fert, Peter Grunberg (3) David Gross, Frank Wilczek (4) Andre Geim, Konstantin Novoselov

Last Answer : Andre Geim, Konstantin Novoselov

Description : The Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the year 2011 has been awarded to (1) Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess (2) Bruce A. Beutler, Jules A. Hoffmann and Ralph M. Steinman (3) Christopher A. Sims and Thomas J. Sargent (4) Dan Schechtman

Last Answer : Dan Schechtman

Description : The Nobel Prize for Physics for the year 2011 has been awarded to (1) Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess (2) Bruce A. Beutler, Jules A. Hoffmann and Ralph M. Steinman (3) Christopher A. Sims and Thomas J. Sargent (4) Dan Schechtman

Last Answer :  Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess

Description : Who is the recepient of the Sahitya Akademi Award 2010 in Hindi Literature category? (1) Uday Prakash (2) Laxman Dubey (3) Nanjil Nandan (4) Mangat Badal

Last Answer : Uday Prakash

Description : Who of the following was not the recipient of Nobel Prize in Economics 2010? (1) Peter A. Diamond (2) Christopher Pissarides (3) Lui Xiaobo (4) Dale Mortensen

Last Answer :  Lui Xiaobo

Description : Who among the following won the ‘ICC Cricketer of the Year Award’ for the year 2009 ? (1) M.S. Dhoni (2) Gautam Gambhir (3) Mitchell Johnson (4) Tillakaratne Dilshan

Last Answer : Mitchell Johnson

Description : Who among the following has been honoured with the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2007? (1) Yash Chopra (2) Ustsad Amjad Ali Khan (3) Manna Dey (4) A. Nageshwara Rao

Last Answer : Manna Dey

Description : For which one of the following, M.S. Dhoni was chosen for the year 2007 ? (1) Arjun Award (2) Dronacharya Award (3) Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award (4) None of the above

Last Answer : Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award

Description : Who has been crowned Miss Universe, 2008 ? (1) Miss Japan (2) Miss Venezuela (3) Miss Philippines (4) Miss Malaysia

Last Answer : Miss Venezuela

Description : Nobel Prize winning India, Amartya Sen, is known for his work in which area ? (1) Physics (2) Environmental Protection (3) Chemistry (4) Economics

Last Answer : Economics

Description : What is the field in which coutstanding work may be recognised with the award of Pulitzer Prize ? (1) Science and Technology (2) Literature and Journalism (3) International Understanding (4) Environmental Studies 

Last Answer : Literature and Journalism

Description : Who, of the following, was awarded “Ashok Chakra” on 26th January, 2009 ? (a) Hemant Karkare (b) M.C. Sharma (c) Gajendra Singh (d) Vijay Salaskar (1) a and b (2) a, b and d (3) a, b and c (4) All of the above

Last Answer : All of the above

Description : Which one of the following cricketers has been awarded the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award for the year 2007? (1) Sachin Tendulkar (2) Saurav Ganguly (3) M.S. Dhoni (4) Virender Sehwag

Last Answer : M.S. Dhoni

Description : Name the winner of the Sanjay Chopra National Award for Bravery 2008. (1) Saumika Mishra (2) Santosh Sen (3) Amit Kumar (4) Pappu

Last Answer : Saumika Mishra

Description : Who among the following has been conferred the ‘Climate Protection Award’ by the Environment Protection Agency of the US ? (1) Medha Patkar (2) Rajendra Singh (3) R. K. Pachauri (4) Arundhati Roy

Last Answer : R. K. Pachauri

Description : The first Indian to win the ICC ODI Player of the Year (2007) Award is (1) Saurav Ganguly (2) Virender Sehwag (3) Yuvraj Singh (4) Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Last Answer : Mahendra Singh Dhoni